I had this interesting thought which I am sure can be easily defeated but definitely points towards the success of WordPress. I was searching the web for something inconspicuous as the “iWrap” and I came upon some interesting results. While browsing the results and then switching back to the search results page, I realized that the first page had at least three results that were either related to WordPress or were on a WordPress blog. I repeated the search for completely inane search terms and had at least one result show up on every search I performed from a blog that used WordPress as the blogging tool. I have had this happen in the past with various other queries but had not quite put two and two together. So my hypothesis is that a WordPress blog or a link that is somehow related to WordPress, shows up on the first […]
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Archive for April, 2008
One Column Themes Cranky Hemingway A one column theme based on the Hemingway theme. This theme also sports a extended sidebar in the footer area to display additional content. Two Column Themes Libertine Libertine is a minimalistic theme specifically made for WordPress 2.5. It contains support for Gravtar, new image classes and more. WP Bats WP Bats is a two column, fixed-width, widget ready theme. The theme comes build in with page links navigation. Grayplicity Grayplicity is a two column widget ready theme. The theme comes with a CSS file that is compressed and used by the site so if you try editing the style.css and nothing changes please make changes in the header to use style.css. Codescheme Blue Codescheme Blue is a fixed-width, 2 column widget ready theme. The pages have a horizontal tab menu, using the CSS ‘sliding-doors’ method and are generated automatically. Three Column Themes Thoughtlog Thoughtlog […]
[Continue Reading...]The results for the Webware 100 have been released. WordPress.org along with WordPress.com have taken home the award for best publisher. Congratulations to the team at Automattic, the core developers of WordPress.org and last but not least, thanks to all of you who voted and continue to use and support WordPress on a daily basis.
[Continue Reading...]Those of you who have been wanting a Technology conference to visit the South Eastern United States are now in luck. The event is called South By Deep South and is a take on the familiar South by South West conference. The event will be held in Birmingham, Alabama on September 26th-28th. The final details of the event are still being worked out but Ike Pigott has already let us know some of what we can expect from this event: Social Media/PR/Marketing Web development A full-blown WordCamp In case you missed it, that last one says WordCamp. Personally, I thought Atlanta, Georgia would of been the first city in the South Eastern United States to get a WordCamp event, but it looks like I was wrong. Ike also notes that there will be a SideWalk Festival that will be taking place during the same weekend. I’m really glad to see […]
[Continue Reading...]If you cannot see the video, please visit this link: Organize Series – Video Plugin Review Today’s WordPress Plugin video review is of Organize Series by Unfolding Neurons. Video Summary: Organize Series is an extremely powerful plugin that makes organizing series rather simple. There are many options to customize the look. The show clincher for me is the ability to have series archives. I highly recommend this plugin for people who do post series. Pros: It’s easy to add series and to organize them. Many options to customize the look and feel. The series permalinks are a nice feature. Cons: Perhaps too many options, but power-users will love them. I only tested this plugin on 2.5, so I’m not sure how well this plugin fares on other versions. If you think your WordPress plugin will merit itself to a video review, please get in contact with me via e-mail (ronalfy+wltc […]
[Continue Reading...]Two Column Themes Elegant Orange Elegant Orange is a very simple WordPress theme with a nice elegant style. The sidebar is widget-ready. Rainbow Rainbow a clean, light-colored template with a rainbow strip at the top. There is a area in the header to add a note or announcement for your readers. The theme is widget ready. FedBurned FedBurned is a fixed-width, widget ready 2 column with right sidebar theme. The theme resembles designs from Feedburner. Professor Professor is a theme which seeks to put text and images first and foremost, and create a pleasurable reading experience. It also has a option to show a feature post on the top of the home page. Underwater A unique theme where the readers experience content as if they are reading it under water. The theme has a dolphin image in the header.
[Continue Reading...]Kaspars from Konstruktors has released a WordPress 2.5 plugin called Baltic Amber Themes that allows you to change your default colour schemeadmin theme. Update: This plugin does modify your admin layout as well as your color schemes, so please keep this in mind if trying the plugin out. Kaspars has mentioned that there is now an option to disable the layout changes. What’s even cooler about this plugin is that the plugin provides a nice refresh to the Write Panel and several areas of the overall administration panel. After activating the plugin, you can change the default colour schemetheme by viewing your profile options. From there, you have an option of 8 colour schemes, or an option for a custom or random colour. This is a rather welcome addition to the WordPress 2.5 admin area. Baltic Amber Themes Baltic Amber Write Panel Baltic Amber Settings Download your own copy of […]
[Continue Reading...]Last week I published two articles using custom loops. The first was about how to create a custom loop. The second was how to retrieve posts based on custom fields. In both articles, several readers commented that they would like to see paging and have it explained. I’d like to thank Aaron Harun from Anthology of Ideas for supplying the code used in this post. Paging, and why it doesn’t work with WP_Query The paging magic happens in a file called ‘link-template.php‘ in the ‘wp-includes‘ folder. Most themes have basic paging built in, with the help of two functions: next_posts_link and previous_posts_link. These functions, as well as several others, make use of a global variable called $wp_query. This variable is actually an instance of the WP_Query object. However, when we create our own instantiation of WP_Query, we don’t have this global variable $wp_query, which is why paging will not work. […]
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- Mark Ghosh
An avid fan of business, education, technology and finance. I lead a lean, highly focussed and capable team of Java Back End developers and Front End developers through a maze of complex software wizardry to fulfill the web maintenance needs of a large chemical manufacturer. As per Myers-Briggs Personality Types, I am an ESTJ. I pride in a project completed on time and according to plan. My hobbies include all kinds of technology, anything that I can taste and anything that goes fast or flies in the air. I like to read business books and comics in my spare time.
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